Skipping Christmas
John Grisham, 2001
A couple decides to skip Christmas entirely—no tree, no gifts, no parties—and discovers how much the holiday costs them in every sense.
Graphic novels & humour: books to read
A good comic novel lets you laugh at people who are recognisably yourself. «A Man Called Ove» does this with a grumpy widower whose routines collapse when new neighbours move in, and «Me Talk Pretty One Day» does it with David Sedaris failing at French and at being a son. Both find the tender spot inside the joke, and neither asks you to stop noticing how sad some of it is.
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A creature from an older world appears at the edge of ours.
He slammed the door. His third step was into a shallow pothole. Cold water soaked his right ankle and oozed down quickly into his shoe. He froze for a second and caught his breath, then stepped away on his toes, trying desperately to spot other puddles while dodging traffic. -
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Jailbird
Kurt Vonnegut, 1979
A Watergate-era ex-con drifts through American labor history and family failure, looking for a decent way to live.
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Up the Down Staircase
Bel Kaufman, 1964
A first-year teacher's dispatches from a New York City high school, assembled from memos, notes and student voices — funny, furious and still familiar.
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A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman, 2012
A grumpy Swedish man with strict rules and a Saab finds his orderly life interrupted by the messy neighbours next door. Funny, tender and sometimes bleak.
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris, 2000
Essays about failing — at French, at work, at being a son — told with a deadpan that makes humiliation sound like the best thing that ever happened to him.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson, 1971
A drug-soaked road trip into the wreckage of the 1960s, where the American Dream is chased with a trunk full of chemicals and a notebook.
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Death Note, Vol. 1
Tsugumi Ohba, 2003
A brilliant, bored student finds a notebook that kills anyone whose name it holds — and discovers he likes playing god.
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Saga, Volume 1
Brian K. Vaughan, 2012
A couple from warring species flee with their newborn, pursued by bounty hunters and royalty across a vivid, foul-mouthed galaxy.
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Yellowface
R.F. Kuang, 2023
A scalpel-sharp satire of publishing: a jealous writer steals a dead friend's manuscript and learns who gets to tell which stories.
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Matilda
Roald Dahl, 1988
A tiny girl with a giant library card takes on the worst headmistress in England and wins by being cleverer than every adult around her.
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V for Vendetta
Alan Moore, 1982
A masked anarchist blows up a fascist Britain's symbols and teaches a young woman to see the state for what it is.
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Attack on Titan, Vol. 1
Hajime Isayama, 2009
Humanity lives penned behind three concentric walls, forbidden to ask what lies beyond them — until one boy's unbearable curiosity becomes the engine of everything.
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Jonas Jonasson, 2009
A centenarian walks out of his nursing home and into a picaresque of vodka, atom bombs and historical cameos—comedy with a straight face.
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris, 2004
David Sedaris turns family grudges, guilt, apartment hunting and a child's hot chocolate into comic essays that are also quietly tender.
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1941 Αυστηρά συσκότισις
Θανάσης Πέτρου, 2021
A graphic novel about life in occupied Thessaloniki, where ordinary work and fragile loyalties unfold under the pressure of war and persecution.
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1936
Θανάσης Πέτρου, 2019
A graphic novel set in 1936, where one man’s memories trace a life shaped by political upheaval and displacement.
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Βαβέλ
Gaston Dorren, 2018
A lively illustrated tour of the world's languages, showing how they shape identity, history and the way we see one another.
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Κόκκινος κύκλος
Ηλίας Κυριαζής, 2024
A Greek comic-book project revisits stories from television, asking what images, silences and new creative eyes can carry across time.
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Η Τριλογία της Νέας Υόρκης (Graphic Novel)
Paul Auster, 1994
Three New York mysteries turn walking, watching and remembering into questions about who we are—and how much of ourselves can disappear.
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Αριστοτέλης (Κόμικς)
Τάσος Αποστολίδης, 1982
A comic-book introduction to Aristotle’s life and ideas, bringing ancient philosophy into the lively world of a graphic biography.
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Ιστορίες από την αίθουσα αναμονής. Ένα κόμικ για γυναίκες με καρκίνο
Γεωργία Ζάχαρη, 2024
A comic shaped by women’s lived experiences of cancer, bringing humour and tenderness to the parts of illness that often go unspoken.
A taste of the feed
The private language of institutions, translated by someone who has learned to hate it.
The clerical work is par for the course. “Keep on file in numerical order” means throw in wastebasket. You’ll soon learn the language. “Let it be a challenge to you” means you’re stuck with it; “interpersonal relationships” is a fight between kids; “ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline” means call the cops; “Language Arts Dept.” is the English office; “literature based on child’s reading level and experiential background” means that’s all they’ve got in the Book Room; “non-academic-minded” is a delinquent; and “It has come to my attention” means you’re in trouble.
Up the Down Staircase · Bel Kaufman
The invisible duel that happens across a shop counter.
Another silence, as if two gunmen have suddenly realized they have forgotten to bring their pistols. Ove looks at the box for a long time, as though he’s waiting for it to make a confession.
A Man Called Ove · Fredrik Backman
What New York couples stay together for, when the children aren't the reason.
In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.
Me Talk Pretty One Day · David Sedaris
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